Help me find longer lectures on Youtube. Is there a browsable index of what's on posted on Youtube (something more detailed and descriptive than the left sidebar on the homepage, the channels page, or the few video links that show up on any given page)? I'd like to find something to watch on my ipod at the gym, something to hold my interest for fifteen to sixty minutes, but not videos of laughing babies, music videos or teenagers beating up each other. Doing a search for "university lectures" leads me to the several UC Berkeley lecture series and the inspiring lecture from the fellow with pancreatic cancer. Is it possible to move beyond that into other college lectures or even multipart courses (arts or science), discussions, longer films, the unexpected? How do I find them?posted by bbranden1 to Education (20 answers total) 46 users marked this as a favorite

You can download various college lectures and other educational tools from iTunes U, inside iTunes itself. I've been watching some of the physics lectures from MIT.posted by fiercekitten at 10:52 AM on April 22, 2008

In terms of full course materials/lectures, MIT Opencourseware is probably your best bet. They have the largest selection of courses, and a good range of materials.posted by s01110011 at 11:03 AM on April 22, 2008

I really like Philip Tagg's strange and unusual lectures on youtube. He's a professor of semiotics and ethnomusicology at the University of Montreal and has very interesting insights into culture wars, communication and the media, and other random topics.posted by cachondeo45 at 11:11 AM on April 22, 2008 [1 favorite]

Fora.tv has lots of lectures about pretty much everything - from Ani DeFranco on file sharing to a talk about the history of national identities in Europe to a talk about the life of an Hindu farmer to Amy Richards and Dan Savage talking about why abstinence education is does not work.posted by nooneyouknow at 5:38 PM on April 22, 2008

While TED talks aren't lectures in the strictest academic sense, they are still intellectually valuable and well worth checking out.posted by oxford blue at 9:47 PM on April 22, 2008

UChannel aggregates both audio and video lectures from a number of universities.

They're not free online, but your local library probably has lots of lectures from The Teaching Company.

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